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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 892 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AUBURN , a See also:

city and the See also:county-seat of Cayuga county, New See also:York, U.S.A., 25 M. S.W. of See also:Syracuse, on an outlet of Owasco See also:Lake. Pop. (189o) 25,858; (1900) 30,345, of whom 5436 were See also:foreign-See also:born, 2084 being from See also:Ireland and 1023 from See also:England; (191o) 34,668. It is served by the Lehigh Valley and the New York Central & See also:Hudson See also:River See also:railways, and by inter-See also:urban electric lines. The city is attractively situated amidst a See also:group of See also:low hills in the See also:heart of the lake See also:country of western New York; the streets are wide, with a profusion of shade trees. Auburn has a city See also:hall, the large Burtis Auditorium, the Auburn See also:hospital, two See also:orphan asylums, and the See also:Seymour library in the See also:Case Memorial See also:building. There is a See also:fine See also:bronze statue of See also:William H. See also:Seward, who made his See also:home here after 1823, and was buried in Fort See also:Hill See also:Cemetery. In Auburn are the Auburn (See also:State) See also:prison (1816), in connexion with which there is a See also:women's prison; the Auburn Theological See also:Seminary (Presbyterian), founded in 1819, chartered in 1820, and opened for students in 1821; the See also:Robinson school for girls; and the Women's Educational and See also:Industrial See also:Union, for the See also:education of working girls, with a building erected in 1907. The city owns its See also:water-See also:supply See also:system, the water being pumped from Owasco Lake, about 22 m. S.S.E. of the city.

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good water-See also:power, and the city has important manufacturing 1 "See also:Life of See also:Anthony a See also:Wood written by Himself " (See also:Aiken. Oxon., ed. See also:Bliss). interests. The See also:principal manufactures are cordage and twine, agricultural implements, engines, pianos, boots and shoes, See also:cotton and woollen goods, carpets and rugs, See also:rubber goods, See also:flour and machinery. The See also:total factory product in 1905 was valued at $13,420,863; of this $2,890,301 was the value of agricultural implements, in the manufacture of which Auburn ranked fifth among the cities of the See also:United States. There are a number of See also:grey and See also:blue See also:limestone quarries, one of which is owned and operated by the See also:municipality. Settled soon after the See also:close of the See also:War of See also:Independence, Auburn was laid out in 1793 by See also:Captain See also:John L. Hardenburgh, a See also:veteran of the war, and for some years was known as Harden-See also:burgh's Corners. In 18o5, when it was made. the county-seat, it was renamed Auburn. It was incorporated in 1814, and was chartered as a city in 1848. See C.

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Hawley, See also:Early Chapters of Cayuga See also:History (Auburn, 1879).

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